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Fedora KDE Plasma Edition Aims To Appeal To Multimedia Enthusiasts & Content Creators

Phoronix - Thu, 01/16/2025 - 20:03
Back in November it was decided that the Fedora KDE Desktop Spin would be promoted to the same tier as the GNOME-based Fedora Workstation. Fedora KDE as an "Edition" status for Fedora 42 will now be on the same level as Fedora Workstation Edition. More details on those Fedora KDE Edition plans have now come to light...

AT_EXECVE_CHECK Submitted For Linux 6.14 To Help With Consistent Security

Phoronix - Thu, 01/16/2025 - 19:55
In anticipation of the Linux 6.14 merge window opening next week if Linux 6.13 releases as expected this coming Sunday, Google engineer Kees Cook has already sent out pull requests to Linus Torvalds of new feature code he's been aligning for the v6.14 cycle. One of the interesting pulls is the introduction of the AT_EXECVE_CHECK flag to the execveat call...

CXL Address Translation Support For AMD Zen 5 Sees Linux Patches

Phoronix - Thu, 01/16/2025 - 19:48
A set of Linux kernel patches posted by AMD engineers last week are working on enhancing the CXL address translation support between the HPA decoder and system physical memory addresses. These patches get that CXL address translation support working for the recently launched AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" Zen 5 server processors...

Expanding Web Camera Support Among Newer Intel Laptops Planned For Fedora 42

Phoronix - Thu, 01/16/2025 - 19:13
Red Hat engineer Hans de Goede wrote a blog post a few days ago around the Intel IPU6 and newer web camera support still being a challenge on Linux. While various Intel IPU6 open-source code has been upstreamed, there remain differences with a number of laptops currently available still not working out-of-the-box for web camera support on Linux. Hans de Goede has now initiated a change proposal for Fedora 42 to take care of more Intel web camera issues...

GCC Goes Ahead With The ARM64 ILP32 Deprecation

Phoronix - Thu, 01/16/2025 - 19:02
As a follow-up to the recent news around GCC considering deprecating ARM64 ILP32 support, the free software developers have indeed decided to move ahead in deprecating this 32-bit ABI for ARM64...

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